Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are

so I wanna start by offering you a free

no-tech life hack, and all it requires of you

is this that you change your posture for two minutes

but before I give it away

I want to ask you right now do a little

audit of your body and what you are doing with your body

so how many of you are making yourself smaller

maybe you are hunching, crossing your legs,

maybe wrapping your ankles, sometimes

we hold onto our arms like this

sometimes we spread out

I want you to pay attention to what you are doing right now

we gonna come back to that in a few minutes

and I am hopping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit

it could significantly change the way your life unfolds

so we are really fascinated with body language

and we are particularly interested in other people body languages

we are interested in, an awkward interaction, a smile

or contemptuous slangs or maybe a very awkward wink

or maybe even something like a handshake

so a handshake or a lack of a handshake can have a talking for

weeks and weeks, even the BBC and the New York times

so obviously when we think about non-verbal behaviour or body language

but we call non-verbal as social scientist

its language so we think a about communication,

when we think about communication,

we think about interaction

so what is your body language communicating to me

what's mine communicating to you

and there are a lot of reasons to believe this is a valid

way to look at this